I'll be visiting Quebec City for the first time in July - any restaurant recommendations? Google isn't being must help for once! They don't have to be specifically vegan/vegetarian places, just with good vegan options on the menu, within a reasonable price range...Thanks PPK!

There is not much in Qc city from what I know. Then again, I'm not a local either. Zen restaurant might be the only one that I could recommend. Standard pan-asian veg restaurant but it still hits the spot.

Maybe it's too late since it's already July, but anyway the info might be useful to other people.

I've lived in Quebec City my whole life, but I've only been vegan since January, so while I know the city well I don't know everything about vegan options.

The only vegetarian restaurant in Quebec City is Restaurant Zen. It has vegan options but I think you have to ask what is vegan.

Non-vegetarian restaurants known for offering at least one vegan option are Le Tiers-temps, which just opened, and Café Babylone, which I think is in vacation right now.

I must admit I haven't eaten in either of these yet (I haven't many occasions of eating out). I usually eat at Thai Express (vegetarian options here) when I'm at the mall or something. You can get frozen soygourt (called Tofrui) at La Crémière, which tastes good.

There is a vegan potluck nearly every month. The next one is on August 9th, I can give you details if you will still be there by then.

You can buy vegan food at health food stores: Aliments de santé Laurier, Le Crac and Accomodation bio. Aliments de santé Laurier is the biggest.

There are vegan restaurants in Montreal. You can find them on this site. I haven't been to Montreal in a while so I never tried one. Lucky Montrealers.

And in Rimouski, a small city (much) farther north, Parfum de Corée (Korean food) is simply delicious. It offers three vegan main meals and one dessert (you have to ask what is vegan). And the boulangerie Les baguettes en l'air sells a variety of good vegan muffins (they're not advertized as vegan, you have to ask to make sure).

Oh, and a company that makes some frozen/refrigerated meals in Quebec should you need some is Le Commensal. There's also the better-known Amy's and others of course. But Le Commensal is easily found in supermarkets. Some of their meals are vegetarian, so always check the ingredients.

I'm not saying those meals are particulary good, note, they're just OK. And Le Commensal got itself a bad reputation when its restaurants went from vegetarian to flexitarian. Its Quebec City restaurant closed recently.

There is a new vegan restaurant, "Ôm Prana", but it is raw. It is in a meditation/yoga kind of place. They offer salads, sandwiches, a few other main dishes, juices, smoothies and desserts. Note that they have a small "grocery store" section that is not vegan.

Apart from that, Zen is still the only vegetarian restaurant in the city. As I said before, it is asian food, the food is OK and the service, slow. You have to ask the waiter what is vegan on the menu.

Among omni restaurants: -Hosakaya as a vegan ramen that I like. With miso broth, vegetables, nori, tofu...-At Gemini Pizza, you can choose the vegetable pizza and ask for Daiya instead of cheese (I heard that but I haven't tried it yet.)-Les délices d'Adriana serves food from Afghanistan. The menu has a vegetarian section and you can ask for a version without dairy for most of the dishes. The naan is already without dairy, only you must ask that they don't spread butter on it.- I heard there are vegan options at restaurants "Le Tiers Temps" and "Café Babylone".-Thaï Express is a Thai fast food chain that has some vegan options. It is nothing special but has the advantage of a lot of locations.

Places to see... it is hard to tell in fact from one who has always lived here and travelled very little. I lack perspective. There is a fine arts museum, "Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec". You can see there all the exhibitions for a single price, including a permanent exhibition on Inuit art. There is also a museum centered more on history, society and such, "Musée de la civilisation". (There are of course countless other museums, but these are the two main ones.)

There is a big historical park I like a lot, "Parc des champs de bataille" also called "Plaines d'Abraham". It has trees, a garden and military fortifications. Though the leaves are barely out now and I'm not sure how green it would be by next weekend.

I like "Terrasse Dufferin" too, a nice place uptown where you can see the St-Lawrence River while walking along.

Most tourists end up in the "Vieux-Québec" and "Quartier Petit Champlain" parts of town. They are the most historical with old buildings and all that, but so tourist-oriented that they are artificial. With souvenir shops and inflated-price restaurants designed for tourists, practically no one actually living in those parts of the city, no commodities like grocery stores or drugstores, almost everything closed in winter... But I like the stone houses, the decorated churches and the quaintness of the place, and some shops are more artistic and less tacky.

Apart from tourists' restaurants and shops, don't expect too many people to understand English. And I would advise bringing a warm sweater since we are having a belated spring up to now.

Their vegetarian sauce is supposed not to have fish sauce... You can ask for the vegetarian sauce in the fried rice, the pad thaï, the pad see ew and all flavours of the sautés except for the peanut and oyster flavours. For the fried rice, the pad thaï and the pad see ew, you have to ask for it to be without eggs too.

What I'm worried about is not whether they have a vegan sauce or not, what I don't like is that when I order, "vegetarian" never seems to be written on the order, so how does the person who cooks it know they have to use the vegan sauce...

Has vegan dining improved? Thinking of staying a night (or two), particularly if I can manage a day trip to do nature stuff near Baie-Sainte Catherine! Know of any nice little B&B's or clean but reasonable hotels?

The only vegetarian restaurant, Zen, is closed. There remain three raw restaurants (I'm unfortunately not a fan of raw food): Ôm Prana, Qui Lu Cru and Crudessence. Ôm Prana has a few dishes with cooked ingredients in them (but mostly cold even when cooked.) Qui Lu Cru has honey in some dishes. Crudessence is opening this month.

In omni restaurants, the best choices are Aux délices d'Ariana (Afghan food with many vegan options) and Baifoo (Asian food with many vegan options). Ramen restaurant Hosakaya has changed its name for Toraya and has one vegan ramen. Gemini pizza is closed.

For fast-food, Thai Express has some choices if you specify the vegetarian sauce (also called gluten-free sauce) and choose tofu or vegetables instead of meat. Poutineville offers Daiya, its poutine sauce is vegan and you can choose the toppings and type of French fries.

Have you tried le Soixante 5 in Levis? I guess you would need a car to get there, but looks like most of the menu is vegan. http://lesoixante5.comNext time I road trip by Quebec, I'm going to have to stop by and try it out.

Have you tried le Soixante 5 in Levis? I guess you would need a car to get there, but looks like most of the menu is vegan. http://lesoixante5.comNext time I road trip by Quebec, I'm going to have to stop by and try it out.

You can get there without a car with the ferry. I like it, but there were no beans, tofu, tempeh or seitan on the menu when I went there, so all the dishes were a bit like side dishes.

I give vegan knitting courses for beginners in Quebec city! Besides using vegetable and synthetic fibers only, I avoid waste by using leftover yarn for practicing techniques and stitches with, and the yarn is reused from one student to the next. I can teach in English or French. PM me if interested!